Google announced that China is blocking its mobile internet services on the mainland. Google switched the status of its mobile services to "partially blocked" from "no issues" on an internal website designed to track the availability of its services in China, the Financial Times reports. The company last week shifted its mainland search engine to Hong Kong to avoid having to comply with censorship restrictions on the mainland. Google said the availability of its mobile services had started to "fluctuate". It was unclear whether the disruptions would continue. Some users in China last week observed that relatively non-sensitive Google searches would sometimes produce browser error messages. When they repeated the search on other engines – such as Microsoft's Bing – there was no error message and they received at least some results.
